Market · Minneapolis metro · within 25 miles
The Minneapolis market books about 704 shows a year across 357 venues, with 627 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 23%, ahead of Classical at 16%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 41% of the year. August is the peak month. Dakota Jazz Club is the most-booked venue, with 132 shows on record. The market covers Minneapolis and 69 nearby cities within 25 miles, including St. Paul, Lakeville and Stillwater.
Refreshed September 29, 2026 · from Cultivate's live dataset
The venues
Ranked by shows on record. Genre focus comes from what each venue has actually booked.
The shape of the market
What else competes for the night
Fairs, festivals, sports and civic events pull the same crowd. Cultivate weighs each one by expected draw and scores every night in Minneapolis from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · large draw
2 dates on the calendar · large draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts Minneapolis on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in Minneapolis that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 357 venues that book live music within 25 miles of Minneapolis, Minnesota, from bar stages to arenas, with about 704 shows in the last twelve months and 627 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 253 shows fall on a Saturday, against 87 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 41% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 23% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Classical at 16%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis, with 132 shows on record and 74 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the Minneapolis data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for Minneapolis and every other market in the country.